- George Ade
George Ade was born in Kentland, Indiana, and graduated from Purdue University in 1887, where he displayed interest in the literary field. He did journalistic work in Lafayette, Indiana, until 1890, when he moved to Chicago and started work on the Chicago Daily News (later renamed The Chicago News Record , then The Chicago Record ). He was a prolific writer and often collaborated with college classmate John T. McCutcheon , the renowned cartoonist. - Brad Pitt
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. He became famous during the mid 1990s, after having starring roles in several major Hollywood films, including "Interview with the Vampire" in 1994 and the thriller "Se7en" in 1995. Pitt has been nominated for an Academy Award and has won a Golden Globe Award, both for his role in "Twelve Monkeys" (1996). - John Wayne
John Wayne (May 26, 1907 - June 11, 1979) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning, American film actor. He epitomized ruggedly individualistic masculinity, and has become an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive voice, walk and height. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Wayne thirteenth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. A Harris Poll released in 2007 placed Wayne third among America's favorite film stars, … - David Letterman
Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series 1994 "Late Show with David Letterman"David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947, in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA) is an award-winning American comedian, late night talk show host, television producer, philanthropist, and IRL IndyCar Series car owner. His first major success occurred on the long-running NBC television program, "Late Night with David Letterman", … - Benjamin Piatt Runkle
Benjamin Piatt Runkle, (September 3, 1836 - June 28, 1916) was one of the original seven founders of Sigma Chi fraternity, as well as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Runkle was born in West Liberty, Ohio. In Sigma Chi he is remembered most for his pugnaciousness; he threw his DKE badge on the table in disgust in the pivotal meeting between the founders of Sigma Chi and Whitelaw Reid. - James Parks Caldwell
James Parks Caldwell, March 27, 1841-April 5, 1912 born in Monroe, Ohio, was just 14 years old when he helped launch the Sigma Chi Fraternity. By the time he was 13, his progress through academic courses, including Latin and advanced math, caused the principal of the local academy to remark that the boy had covered everything that could be offered there, and he entered Miami University apparently with advanced credits. - Rip Torn
Rip Torn (born February 6, 1931) is an American Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning television and film actor, who is perhaps best known, among many, for his role as Artie on the HBO comedy series "The Larry Sanders Show". - Warren Beatty
Henry Warren Beaty (born March 30, 1937), better known as Warren Beatty, is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning American actor, producer, screenwriter, and director. The Academy Awards honored him with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 2000, presented by his close friend Jack Nicholson, while in 2004 he received a Kennedy Center Honor. In 2007, he was honored with the Cecil B. Demille Award at the Golden Globe Awards Ceremony. - Barry Goldwater
Barry Morris Goldwater was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–87) and the Republican Party's nominee for president in the 1964 election. He is the American politician most often credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. Goldwater rejected the legacy of the New Deal and fought inside the Conservative coalition to defeat the New Deal coalition. - Drew Brees
Andrew Christopher Brees (born January 15, 1979 in Austin, Texas) is an American football quarterback for the New Orleans Saints of the NFL. The San Diego Chargers originally selected him as the first pick of the 2001 NFL Draft's second round. - Buster Crabbe
Buster Crabbe (February 7, 1908 - April 23, 1983) was an American athlete turned actor, who starred in a number of popular serials in the 1930s and 1940s. - Eric Fonoimoana
Eric Fonoimoana (born June 7, 1969) is an American volleyball player who currently resides in Hermosa Beach, California. He was born in Manhattan Beach, California, and attended UCSB. He is most notable for winning the gold medal in the 2000 Olympic Games. He has earned approximately 1 million dollars playing volleyball. He has played professionally for more than 18 years, and has entered over 200 tournaments. Fonoimoana's partner is Dain Blanton. - Robert A. Swanson
Robert A. Swanson (1947-1999) was a venture capitalist who cofounded the biotechnology giant Genentech in 1976 with Herbert Boyer. Genentech is a pioneer in the field, and it remains one of the leading biotech companies in the world. He held an S.B. degree in Chemistry from MIT as well as a Master's degree in Management (M.B.A.) from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Both degrees were conferred in 1970. - Daniel William Cooper
Daniel William Cooper was born near Fredericktown, Ohio. He was 25 years old when he and the other six Founders founded Sigma Chi at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, 1855. Cooper is credited with contributing much to the spiritual content and nature of the Fraternity. Cooper showed his devotion to his faith in Christ and the Christian principles which he founded Sigma Chi upon and profess for the rest of his life. - J. William Fulbright
James William Fulbright (April 9, 1905-February 9, 1995) was a well-known member of the United States Senate representing Arkansas. Fulbright was a Southern Democrat and a staunch multilateralist, supported racial segregation, supported the creation of the United Nations and opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee. He is perhaps best remembered for his efforts to establish an international exchange program, which thereafter bore his name, … - Milton Caniff
Milton Arthur Paul Caniff (February 28, 1907-May 3, 1988) was an American cartoonist famous for the "Terry and the Pirates" and "Steve Canyon" comic strips. - Mike Ditka
Michael Keller Ditka, Jr. (born October 18, 1939, in Carnegie, Pennsylvania) also known as Iron Mike Ditka or Da Coach, is a former American NFL player, television commentator, and coach. Ditka coached the Chicago Bears for 11 years. Ditka and Tom Flores are the only two people to win Super Bowls as a player, an assistant coach and a head coach; and was the only individual to participate in two Chicago Bears' championships, … - Ben Joseph Savage
Bennett Joseph Savage, (born on September 13, 1980) is an American film and TV actor and child star of the 1990s. Savage is best known for his role as the lead character Cory Matthews on the TV sitcom "Boy Meets World" for seven seasons, which catapulted him into stardom, and for being the younger brother of Fred Savage, who starred in the TV-series "The Wonder Years". - Brooks Hays
Lawrence Brooks Hays (9 August 1898-11 October 1981) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the State of Arkansas. Brooks Hays was born in London, Pope County, Arkansas on 9 August 1898. He attended public schools in Russellville, Arkansas. Hays served in the United States Army in 1918. After leaving the service he earned a degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1919. - James Brady
James Scott “Jim” Brady was the former Assistant to the President and White House Press Secretary under President Ronald Reagan. After nearly being killed and becoming permanently disabled as a result of an assassination attempt on Reagan in 1981, Brady became an ardent supporter of gun control. - William M. Barker
William M. Barker (born on September 13, 1941 in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court. Barker is married with three children. After graduating from the University of Cincinnati College of Law and a stint in the United States Army Medical Services Corps in the late 1960s, he worked in private practice until 1983. In the 1980s he began a new career in the Tennessee court system, … - Johnny Majors
Johnny Majors (born May 21, 1935 in Lynchburg, Tennessee), was a longtime College Football Head Coach and alumnus of the University of Tennessee. Majors was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame (as a player) in 1987. - Woody Harrelson
Known almost as much for his off-screen pastimes as his on-screen characterizations, Woody Harrelson is an actor for whom truth is undeniably stranger than fiction. Son of a convicted murderer, veteran of multiple arrests, outspoken environmentalist, and tireless hemp proponent, Harrelson is colorful even by Hollywood standards. However, he is also a strong, versatile actor, something that tends to be obscured by the attention paid to his real-life antics. - Ted McGinley
Ted Martin McGinley (born May 30, 1958) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Jefferson D'Arcy on the television series "Married... with Children", and as Charley Shanowski on the former ABC sitcom "Hope & Faith". - Regis Toomey
John Regis Toomey (August 13, 1898 - October 12, 1991) was an American film and television actor. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, he was one of four children of Francis X. and Mary Ellen Toomey and attended Peabody High School. He initially pondered a law career, but acting won out and he established himself as a musical stage performer. Educated in dramatics at the University of Pittsburgh, where he became a brother of Sigma Chi, … - Norris Goff
Norris Goff (May 30, 1906 - June 7, 1978) was an American comedian in radio and film best known for his portrayal of Abner Peabody on the rural comedy "Lum and Abner". Nicknamed "Tuffy," Goff was born in Cove, Arkansas, but soon moved to Mena, Arkansas where he met his longtime friend and partner Chester Lauck (Lum). Despite their fame as backwoodsmen, both actors graduated from the University of Arkansas. - Bob Corker
Robert Phillips "Bob" Corker, Jr. (born August 24, 1952) is the junior United States Senator from Tennessee. He was formerly the mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee and a successful businessman. He is the only freshman Republican Senator in the 110th Congress. - Hank Stram
Hank Stram, was an American Football coach. He is best known for his 14-year tenure with the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League. Stram won three AFL Championships (more than any other coach in the league's history) and Super Bowl IV with the Chiefs. He also coached for the most victories (87), most post-season appearances (6) and the best post-season record in the AFL (5-1). - Urban Meyer
Urban F. Meyer (born July 10, 1964 in Ashtabula, Ohio) is currently the head football coach at the University of Florida. He is best known for leading Florida to the 2006 Southeastern Conference Championship and later the BCS National Championship. Previously, as head coach at the University of Utah and Bowling Green State University, he led the Utes and the Falcons each to two of their greatest seasons in school history. - Jay Stewart
Jay Stewart (real name Jay Fixx, September 6, 1918 - September 17, 1989), was an American television and radio announcer most famous as the announcer on "Let's Make a Deal" and in the 1980s of "Sale of the Century". Stewart was also the primary announcer for all Barry & Enright game shows from 1977 until 1981, including "The Joker's Wild" and "Tic Tac Dough". In 1981, after leaving Barry & Enright Productions, … - William Christopher
William Christopher (born October 20, 1932) is an American actor who is best known for playing Father Mulcahy on the television series "M*A*S*H" and Private Lester Hummel on "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C." - Bud Adams
Kenneth Stanley "Bud" Adams, Jr. (born 1923) is a Houston, Texas businessman who owns the Tennessee Titans franchise in the National Football League. He was a charter owner in the former American Football League with the Titans' predecessor franchise, the Houston Oilers. Along with the Titans, Adams also owns the Nashville Kats of the Arena Football League. Mr. Adams has many business interests in the Houston area. - Jim Finn
Jim Finn (born December 9, 1976, Fair Lawn, New Jersey) is an American football fullback for the New York Giants NFL franchise. He is currently the national face of Phazyme in their latest ad campaign. - Patrick Muldoon
Patrick Muldoon (born William Patrick Muldoon III on September 27, 1968 in San Pedro, California) is an American actor. He was born to an Irish-American father and a Croatian-born mother. He attended a Jesuit high school, and graduated in 1991 from the University of Southern California, where he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity and played football for the USC Trojans. - Roy Chapman Andrews
Roy Chapman Andrews (January 26, 1884-March 11, 1960) was an American explorer, adventurer and naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History, primarily known for leading a series of expeditions through the fragmented China of the early 20th century into the Gobi Desert and Mongolia. The expeditions made important discoveries and brought the first-known fossil dinosaur eggs in the world to the museum. - Drew Bennett
Andrew Russell Bennett (born August 26, 1978 in Berkeley, California) is an American football player in the National Football League. Bennett plays wide receiver for the St. Louis Rams whom acquired him as an free agent on March 3, 2007. He signed a six-year deal worth $30 million with $10 million in guarantees. During the 2004 season he tied an NFL record by scoring eight touchdowns in a three game span. - Isaac M. Jordan
Isaac M. Jordan (May 5, 1835 - December 3, 1890) was born in Mifflinburg, Union County, Pennsylvania. Jordan was 20 years old when he became one of the founding members of the Sigma Chi Fraternity in 1855 at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. When he was a boy, he moved with his family to Springfield, Ohio and became friends with fellow Founder Benjamin Piatt Runkle. Jordan is best remembered for his strong will and determined purpose. - Gordon Gould
Gordon Gould was an American physicist who is widely (but not universally) credited as the inventor of the laser. He is best known for his thirty-year fight with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to obtain patents for the laser and related technologies, and his court battles with laser manufacturers to enforce the patents he obtained. - Matt Eversmann
Matthew Eversmann is a US Army Ranger and was the leader of Chalk 4 during The Battle of Mogadishu. The October 3, 1993 mission was his first time leading a group in combat. In the movie "Black Hawk Down" his role was a main character played by Josh Hartnett. Contrary to the movie though, Eversmann was picked up by and fought with the "Lost Convoy," not the ground assault to the downed helicopters. - David Canary
David Canary (born August 25, 1938 in Elwood, Indiana) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor, who starred in both soap operas and prime time television. He is best known for his roles as the ranch foreman, Candy Canaday on "Bonanza" (a role he played from 1967-1970; 1972-1973) and Adam & Stuart Chandler on "All My Children" (1983-present).
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